The Liberté readers were prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France’s Impact on the Nineteenth Century, led by Olchar Lindsann & Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke, Virginia. Comprised entirely of texts available in the public domain, the readers are intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age, bringing together together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it.

While intending a fully-rounded evocation of French history, politics, economics and social thought during the century, their most important role from the perspective of the mOnocle-Lash Community is their integration of a history of the French avant-garde from the first use of the term in 1827 through the Symbolists, and particularly extensive research and translations appearing here for the first time. Read from this perspective, the series presents, albeit only impressionistically, the first comprehensive treatment in English of the development of the avant-garde between 1827–1900.

Published in conjunction with Community High School. The Liberté books must be purchased through the Lulu website; sorry for the inconvenience.

Vol. I surveys the French Revolution and covers up to the eve of the ‘July Revolution,’ charting the proliferation of republican, democratic, and socialist ideas through the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and establishment of the Bourbon monarchy, and the European literary and artistic developments which began to affect the dissident fringes of French society.

Includes passages from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Madame de Staël, Charles Fourier, Claude-Henri Saint-Simon, Jean-Pierre Béranger, Stendhal, René de Chateaubriand, Friedrich Engels, Victor Hugo, Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French National Assembly, Johann von Goëthe, Théophile Gautier, King Louis XVIII, Karl Marx, and Alexis de Tocqueville.

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